So much for it being quick silver.

Gothnet:

Repeated exposure ain't good for you though, as far as I recall. Mercury fumes are s'posed to do things to your brain over time, are they not?

Yeah, sure, chronic exposure is harmful, and yes, vaporized mercury is quite bad, but elemental mercury, the pretty, liquid metal most people think of when they hear about mercury poisoning? You can pretty much drink that shiat with impunity. Elemental mercury is not readily adsorbed by the body, including the GI tract (something like .0003% is absorbed. The rest you shiat out.). There are documented cases of people injecting themselves with Elemental mercury in a suicide attempt, and only after a few years of increasing neurological and pulmonary issues did they see a doctor, who found globs of the stuff spread all around their lungs.

Now, organic mercury compounds, that shiat'll kill ya to death, and badly.

/Don't drink it though
//unless you have worms

Does not approve.

/hotlinked

So did this guy kick Putin's Mini giraffe or something?

FarkinHostile: Cue the posters who think elemental mercury is really, really dangerous.

Hint: it's not.

cirby: Probably wasn't plain elemental mercury.

I'd bet it was a very, very small amount of something like dimethylmercury.

While I don't claim to know about the toxicity of mercury, I know that elemental metallic lead is pretty much harmless unless you are like smelting it in an unventilated room, even then you would probably get CO poisoning first, and even at that its probably no worse than smelting any metal (even one not considered toxic like iron or something) without proper ventilation. Its the organic compounds of lead(like leaded paint and leaded gasoline) that will kill you.

Pretty much the warning labels on fishing lures and wheel weights and ammo and batteries are just plain retarded

A German man has died after being stabbed in the backside by a stranger wielding a poison umbrella which THAT injected him with mercury, fatally poisoning him.

FFS, that shiat is annoying.

WhippingBoy: I have a bottle of mercury that I somehow inherited. What should I do with it?

I want to buy me a mercury.

/cruise it up and down the road

Tanthalas39: FarkinHostile: NewWorldDan: I can just about guarantee, if I were to inject half a gram of elemental mercury into your ass, you gonna die.


No.

Elemental mercury poisoning caused by subcutaneous and intravenous injection: An unusual self-injury

Very interesting. Probably can safely say that if you inject elemental mercury into your ass, you at least have a fighting chance. The source of the article should probably be considered, however; this paper originated at an institution that had been recently "derecognized" for not meeting the standards of the Medical Council of India.

Linky

Would the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 5, 8036 Graz, Austria be a better source?

Auto-aggressive metallic mercury injection around the knee joint: a case report


That guy lived with injected elemental mercury in his body for 15 years before seeking medical attention. And after chelation therapy was apparently fine.


Seriously, there are many documented cases of this. Don't believe me, go research it yourself. Elemental mercury is not good, but you have much more deadly chemicals under your kitchen sink.

WhippingBoy: I have a bottle of mercury that I somehow inherited. What should I do with it?

Leave it alone, pass it down to your kids when the time comes.

KimNorth: Can't you still collect it from the old school thermometers?

Old thermostats are a better source. They use mercury switches, a sealed globe with two wires in it plus a ball of mercury that completes the circuit when the switch is tipped at a certain angle.

KimNorth: How much Mercury did the guy get in him with the one stick of the umbrella needle for it to make him sick?? Something is way off, could it have been ricien or the like and the Government is hushing it?

Meet Karen Wetterhahn.
August 14, 1996 - exposed to a few drops of dimethyl mercury through her rubber gloves
January 1997 - symptoms appeared
June 8, 1997 - dead

NewWorldDan: I can just about guarantee, if I were to inject half a gram of elemental mercury into your ass, you gonna die.


No.

Elemental mercury poisoning caused by subcutaneous and intravenous injection: An unusual self-injury

Anyone else find it odd they didn't mention the victims name?

FarkinHostile: Cue the posters who think elemental mercury is really, really dangerous.

Hint: it's not.

Repeated exposure ain't good for you though, as far as I recall. Mercury fumes are s'posed to do things to your brain over time, are they not?

Probably wasn't plain elemental mercury.

I'd bet it was a very, very small amount of something like dimethylmercury.

Cue the posters who think elemental mercury is really, really dangerous.

Hint: it's not.

WhippingBoy: I have a bottle of mercury that I somehow inherited. What should I do with it?

A) Call someone to have it properly disposed of or.... B) Hang on to it because, hey, you can't get that any more and you have a really awesome jar of liquid metal.



/sorry if you were looking for "C) drink that sumbiatch down, tastes amazing!"

I'm sure he was mad as a hatter when it happened.